Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-27
through the courtroom, until the knees
KNOCKED TOGETHER.

him in the heel, it will turn his step; if it |
strike him in the heart, he throws up his |
hands, as did one of old when wounded in
the battle, crying: "Oh, Galilean, Thou
has conquered
Ia the armory of the Earl of Pembroke !
there are old cGrslets which show that !
the arrow of the English used TO 90 !
through the breastplate, through the BODY |
Of the warrior, and cut through the back |
plate. What symbol Of that Gospel /
which is sharper than a two-edged |
sword, piercing to the dividing asulder |
Of soul and body, and OF the |
Joints and marrow. Would 10 God we
mad more faith in that Gospel. The hum |
best man in this house, if he had enough |
faith in Him, could bring hundred souls !
10 Jesus-perhaps five hundred. Just in
proportion, as this age seems 10 believe
less end less in il, | believe more aad
more in It, What are men about that they
will not accept their own deliYerance?
There is nothing proposed by men that
can do anything like this Gospel. The
religion of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the
| philosophy of lcicles; the religion of Theo-
dore Parker WAS was q sir0cco of the
desert, covering up the soul with dry
! sand; lhe religion Of Renan is the ro-
nance of believing nothing; the religion
Of Thomas Carlyle is only condensed
| London fog: the religion of the HuXleys
and the SpenCers is merely pedestal on
which human philosophy sits shiverlng IN
the night of the soul, looking up to the
stars, Offering no help to the nations
! that crouch and groan at the base. Tell
me where ther9 IS one man who has re-
| ieCted That Gospel for another, who is
/ thoroughly satisfied, and helped, and con-
tented in his skepticism, and l will take
the car tomorrow and ride five hundred
miles to see him. The full power OF the
! Gospel has not yet been touched. As
sportsman throws uphis hand and catches
the ball
FLYING THROUGH THE AIR,
lust so easily will this Gospel after
Will catch this round world filing from
its orbit and bring it back to the heart OF
Christ. Give it full swing, and it will
pardon every sin, neal every wound, cure
every trouble, emsncipate every slave,
ana ransom every nation. Ye Christian
meG and women who go out this after
I noon to do Christian work, 2S you go
into the Sunday schools, ard the lay
preaching stations, and the penitenslarles,
and the asy lums, | want you 10 feel that
YOU bear in your hand g weapon, COM
pared with which the lightning has no
speed, and avallncles have no nett, end
the thuuderbOlts OF heaven have no
power; it is the arrow Of the omnipotent
Gospel. Take careful aim. Pull the
arrow clear back until the head strikes the
bow. Then let 1t fiy. And may the slain
Of the Lord be many.
Again, If YOU want TO be ekillful In
spiritual hunting you must hunt IN unfre-
~
does the hunter 90 three or four
DAYS in the Pennsylvania forests or over
Rauuette lake into the wilds Of the
Adirondacks? 1t is the only way TO do.
The deer are shy, and one "bang" Of the
Gun clears the forest. From the Cali
fornia stage you see, as you go over the
| plains, here and there, 3 coyote trotting
along, almost within range Of the gun
, sometimes quite within range of II. No
, one cares for that; it is worthless. The
t good game is hidden and secluded.
, Every hunter knows that. So, many
: Of the souls that will be Of most worth
for Christ, and of most value TO the
[ church. are secluded. They do not come
: in YOUR way You will have to 60 where
they are. Yonder they are down in that
J cellar yonder they are uD 10 that garnet,
+ Far away from the door of any church,
, the Gospel arrow has not been
POINTED AT THEM.
The tract distributor and the city mis-
s!Onary sometimes ust catch g glimpse
of them, as hunter through the trees
gets g momentsry sight Of a partridge OF
roesuck The trouble is we are waiting
: for the game to come TO US. We are not
good hunters We are standing in
SChermerhorn street, expecting that the
timid antelope will come up and eat out
OF our hand. We are expecting that the
: prairie fowl will light on cur church
: steeple 1t is not their habit. If the
church should wait 100000 o.
, Years for the world to come il
: and be saved, it will wait
IL vain The world will not come. Wh21
t the church wants now is TO lift their tee'
! from damask ottomans and put them il
Tie stirrUps. We want pulpit on wheels
, The church wants not so much cushions
! as il wants saddle bags and arrows. We
| have got TO put aside the gown and the
kid gloves and put on the hunting shirt
} We nave been fishing so long in the brook:
i that run under the shadow Of the churcf
that the fish know US, and they avoid The
HOOK, and escape rs soon as we come tC
/ the bark, while yonder is Upper Saranat
and Big Tupper's Lake, where the tirsi
$ swing of the Gospel net would break it fOI
: the multitude of the fishes. There is out
side work 10 be done. What is that see
I in the backwoods? 1t is tent. The hunt
= ers have made clearing and csmped out
: What 90 they care if they have wet feet
q or il they have nothing but pine branCt
e for q pillow, or for the northeast stcrmt
d II q moose in the darkness steps into th'
Z lake TO drink they hear it right away. l
{ & loon cry in the midnight they hear it
50 in the service of God we have exposed
u work We have got 10 camp out anC
d rough it. We are putting all our care OF
e the &c, 600 people Of Brooklyn, who, the.
say, come to church. What are we dom,
{ for the 200, 600 that do not come? Hav
n they no souls? Are they sinless that the
e need no pardon? Are there no dead il
their houses that they need no comfort
Are they cut off from God,
.e TO GO INTO ETERNITY
no wing to bear them, no light to chez
f them, II welcome 10 greet them? Ines
" TO- day surgiIg up from the lower depth
J., of Brooklyn 3 groan that comes throug
" our Christian sssembleges snd throug
n our Christian churches, and it blots GU
" all this scene from my eyes to-day as b
BIZ the mists of great Niagara, for the das
le and the plunge of these great torrents
w life dropping down into the fathomles
it and laundering abyss of suffering an
it woe. sometimes think that Just IS Go
ID blotted out the church of Thyatira an
Id Corinth aud Laodicea, because OF thei
d sloth and stolidity. He will blot GU
Y American ard English Christianity, an
re raise on the ruins stalwsrt, wide-sWss
is missionary church, that can take the III